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Frostbite (cont.)

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Author: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Editor: Mary Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP, Professor and Chair of Medicine Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

REFERENCE: CDC. "Winter Weather: Frostbite."
<http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/winter/faq.asp>

Previous contributing authors and editors: Chad S Crystal, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Darnall Army Community Hospital. Alexandre F Migala, DO, FAAEM, Aerospace Medicine Service, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Care Medicine, Darnall Army Community Hospital. Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM, Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Ron Fuerst, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of South Carolina College of Medicine; Director, Children's Emergency Center, Children's Hospital of Richland Memorial Hospital.


Last Editorial Review: 1/28/2010

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